김달수의 자전적 글쓰기의 정치: '귀국사업'과 '한일회담'을 사이에 두고

Abstract

Life of Kim Dalsu(1920～1997) after the defeat of Japan can be organized into three aspects; novelist, historian, and journalist. These three lives can be said to be related, through autographical writing which represents other Korean residents in Japan. Autobiography originally refers to the record of one’s own life history, however, for him autographical writing illuminates the others’ stories through the filter of self, as well as himself. Of course, the others are mainly the Korean residents in Japan, and he was in the position to record them. Kim Dalsu is a writer produced by the Japan’s literary community and the publishing market. Only through the Japanese language did he try to guard the position of an author residing in Japan while living up to the expectation. His autographical writing adopted the style of representing the voice of Korean residents in Japan, keeping the repetition and change based on the prototype of 『My Creation and Experience』(1955), his collection of essay. That was the only method to maintain the position of Koreans in Japan referred to as ‘inevitable sacrifice’. The conflict with The Union of Koreans in Japan(在日本朝鮮人總連合會) resulted in making mythologized North Korea into a narrative. At the same time, the entity of ‘me’, the result of ‘inevitable sacrifice’ was the foundation for the ethical rightness. 『Novel, the History of Koreans in Japan』(小說 在日朝鮮人史) in 1975 defined the self as the privileged being who can cross freely the arena between ‘ethnicity’ and ‘I’ by exposing ‘me’ as narrator of ethnography. As in the autographic writing, the strategic equation of ‘History of Kim Dalsu in Japan’ with ‘the history of Koreans in Japan’ can be said to be the politics of agency and representation.